A home owner has been refused permission to move his garden fence to enclose all of his side garden despite claims a hedge on the boundary will reach the same height.
Karl Smith applied to move the 6ft fence at the side of his house in Gorebridge to the pavement, enclosing a strip of grass and hedge which varied between 35cm and 2 metres wide.
However Midlothian planners described the plans for the corner house on Whitehouse Way as 'harsh' and rejected them.
